Farm work
"The great majority of children working on farms do so because they must if their families are to survive. There is a terrible difference between doing some chores or earning some pocket money and having to work so your mother and father and brothers and sisters can eat, can afford a place to live and a few clothes to wear. The difference is the difference in children's work and child labor."
"The flue, the colds, the dizziness are just illnesses you live with. Sometimes, when they are in fields without pesticide residues, their health is good, the work is enjoyable, maybe it's spring and it feels good to be alive."
"But when they go into a nearby field that has been sprayed-or an airplane sprays a field off a ways and the wind carries the pesticides over them- the good feelings begin to disappear."
Working in fields was dangerous. Children were killed because of pesticides and farm equipment. Working in the sun for so long every day could cause illnesses that resulted in the children on bed rest for weeks or months, or, in worst cases, death.
(Ronald B. Taylor, 6-43)
"The flue, the colds, the dizziness are just illnesses you live with. Sometimes, when they are in fields without pesticide residues, their health is good, the work is enjoyable, maybe it's spring and it feels good to be alive."
"But when they go into a nearby field that has been sprayed-or an airplane sprays a field off a ways and the wind carries the pesticides over them- the good feelings begin to disappear."
Working in fields was dangerous. Children were killed because of pesticides and farm equipment. Working in the sun for so long every day could cause illnesses that resulted in the children on bed rest for weeks or months, or, in worst cases, death.
(Ronald B. Taylor, 6-43)